.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston carries a wide array of distinct obligations and benefits. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is actually right now readying to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational goal under NASA's Office Team Program. This will definitely be actually the third launch and second objective to the space station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has invested 203 times in space.Hague was born and increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for university and occupation. He earned levels coming from the USA Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he attended the USA Air Force Exam Fly College at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the U.S. Area Interject 2020 after functioning as the Room Force's director of test as well as examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with new locations, Hague clearly remembers making his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to expect, and it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I knew everyone was enjoying me as well as determining me," he said. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been decided on then, I received another opportunity a couple of years later on. It is actually a fairly magical spot.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was the very first rocketeer coming from that team to be delegated to a mission, which released in October 2018 but was aborted shortly after launch. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in many memories at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his knowledge working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved operate," he detailed. "I don't forget being actually onsite as well as the facility being actually completely empty. Managing to use around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and also surreal." It was actually additionally an examine of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced during the global and also exactly how NASA preserves continuous support for spaceflight procedures despite mitigating conditions.Hague currently expects an additional quest to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently plan to release the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to ascend from Launch Intricate 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will certainly devote regarding six months carrying out scientific study in microgravity and also completing a series of working tasks just before coming back home.Additional information regarding the goal and also crew can be discovered through adhering to the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even office team on Facebook. You may likewise comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.